Bunny Mona Awad Hamish Hamilton Canada What one would give to have been nestled inside Mona Awad’s warren of a mind as she was writing scenes featuring some of the most subversive antagonists to appear ... Read More »
December 2, 2019
Raw: PrEP, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Barebacking Ricky Varghese, ed. University of Regina Press Designed by Duncan Campbell The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina – Separating the Myth from the Medicine Dr. ... Read More »
November 28, 2019
Arnold Gosewich, a Canadian literary agent and chief operating officer of Macmillan Canada from 1982 through 1989, passed away on Oct. 20 in Toronto. He was 85. Born in Ottawa, Gosewich began his career in ... Read More »
October 24, 2019
CanLit, deaf and disabled authors have long occupied a marginal position. While diversity is often part of publisher and festival mandates, deafness, and disability are seldom considered, and there continues to be a lack of ... Read More »
October 21, 2019
Bestselling Toronto author Molly O’Keefe recalls how challenging it used to be for romance writers to get recognition outside of their community. O’Keefe, who published her first Harlequin novel at 25, found coverage of the ... Read More »
October 17, 2019
NeWest Press general manager Matt Bowes has acquired world rights to Danial Neil's novel Dominion of Mercy, a historic epic set in Edinburgh and in B.C. that follows the adventures of an ambitious young heroine. Publication is scheduled for ... Read More »
September 4, 2019
Each month, Canadian library staff vote for their most-anticipated upcoming books, via BookNet Canada’s Loan Stars readers-advisory program and the Canadian Urban Libraries Council. The Testaments, Margaret Atwood (McClelland & Stewart) The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi ... Read More »
August 13, 2019
Changes are afloat in Edmonton’s bookselling landscape as a long-time shop owner retires, and a new bookstore prepares to open its doors. Sharon Budnarchuk, one of the owners of Audreys Books, retired at the end ... Read More »
August 12, 2019
SCIENCE & THE ENVIRONMENT On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal Naomi Klein Knopf Canada, Sept. Naomi Klein’s critical call to action pairs a decade’s worth of her writing and lectures on ... Read More »
July 25, 2019
POETRY NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field Billy-Ray Belcourt House of Anansi Press, Sept. Billy-Ray Belcourt’s previous collection of poetry, 2017’s This Wound Is a World, won the $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize and was ... Read More »
July 22, 2019
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